Five new suspected cases of the disease were reportedly identified over the weekend.

Two of them were in the Wangata area and three in Bikoro.

It comes as the outbreak continues to wreak havoc on the African nation with around 50 confirmed, probable or suspected cases since April.

And the latest outbreak follows a warning from University of Calinfornia Anne Rimoin that the outbreak is now at a "critical point".

WARNING: An outbreak of Ebola has been declared at a 'critical point'

She told Washington Post: "The outbreak is at a critical point where good contact tracing is going to determine its extent."

Last month the World Health Organisation warned it had the potential to be a repeat of the 2014 oubreak that killed over 11,000 people.

Those deaths came from 28,637 cases in the worst case of the disease since its discovery in 1976.

And director at Harvard Global Health Institute Dr Ashish Jah warned it could reach the US and Europe if not properly contained.

He said the hellish scenario had the potential to unfold if the disease reaches the Congolese capital of Kinshasa, which has an estimated population of 12million.

Dr Jah told Daily Star Online: "The worst case scenario is that it ends up in a capital city like Kinshasa.

"That in many ways is the worst case scenario because there it can become global in an interconnected world like ours."

He added: "The reason I raise it is that Kinshasa is down the river, it is the capital city and so we need to be paying attention to to whether it's locally contained, or does it spread through a national capital?

"And that's where it gets scary. Right now we have no evidence that's happening.

"But that would be the really catastrophic scenario because once it gets to a capital city, then it can really get global.

"I think it's unlikely right now. The thing to remember about Ebola is that when you're infected you're also pretty sick, so if people are not travelling if people are throwing up, diarrhoea, fever, hard to get on plane or bus so they're usually at home.

"So that's the good news. But the bottom line is somebody could get infected, travel to a big city and then get sick there, and start spreading."